On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:55 PM Nathan via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Ralf! I think this is great and mostly jibes with my understanding. > > It may help to add some text to the “unsupported platforms” section that > gives us leeway to delete code for previously-supported platforms that we > believe no one is using anymore. For example, for code supporting pypy in a > few years, to the extent that existing code for pypy doesn’t get repurposed > for things like limited API support. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:26 AM Ralf Gommers via NumPy-Discussion < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> There are quite a few open requests for adding support for more >> platforms, either in CI or distributing wheels on PyPI. It seemed high time >> to define a support policy. Both for us to be able to make decisions and >> document a list of supported platforms, and for the people asking for >> support to understand how we think about this topic. >> >> The immediate trigger for this NEP was >> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/22318 (request to support ppc64le >> wheels), however this is already long overdue and there are a number of >> open issues/PRs as well as known headaches or decisions we recently made, >> e.g. Windows arm64 and x86, and macOS x86-64. >> >> This is a rough draft that I put together in an hour or two, drawing >> primarily from PEP 11 and other recent write-ups (all linked under >> Discussion). I'd like to discuss the main principles first before spending >> more time on polishing the text. >> >> PR at https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/30748. Full text below: >> > Thanks for the reviews everyone. The NEP is now merged (with Draft status still): https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0057-numpy-platform-support.html We should probably leave it in Draft until we've used it once or twice to support decisions on platform support, and then move it to Accepted (or make changes, if we found some rough edges). Cheers, Ralf
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